The niche at a glance
Loot on Steam: 3,299 released games, 1,565 in the last 12 months, 2,113 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 16. 42% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Loot is a Steam store tag, applied by the developer and refined by players; a game carries several tags at once, so niche counts overlap and do not add up to the size of the Steam catalogue. Data as of .
What releases end up with
lifetime reviews · released 3 years ago to 90 days ago · failures included1,438 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsLoot × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Loot at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Loot × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gore | 24 | 6 | 44 | 29.2% 15%–49% | 19.0% | ordinary ×0.62 | 212 d |    | |
| Isometric | 120 | 48 | 61 | 20.0% 14%–28% | 18.1% | cliché ×2.92 | 90 d |  | |
| Anime | 82 | 37 | 45 | 19.5% 12%–29% | 17.0% | ordinary ×0.49 | 140 d |    | |
| Realistic | 85 | 34 | 29 | 18.8% 12%–28% | 16.5% | ordinary ×0.69 | 113 d |    | |
| Atmospheric | 214 | 93 | 28 | 17.3% 13%–23% | 16.4% | ordinary ×0.78 | 113 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 104 | 42 | 15 | 17.3% 11%–26% | 15.6% | ordinary ×0.43 | 190 d |   | |
| First-Person | 183 | 77 | 20 | 16.4% 12%–22% | 15.4% | ordinary ×0.85 | 113 d |    | |
| Emotional | 18 | 9 | 12 | under 20 | 14.1% | avoided ×0.22 | 181 d |    | |
| Horror | 104 | 44 | 15 | 15.4% 10%–24% | 14.0% | ordinary ×0.55 | 126 d |  | |
| Cozy | 26 | 16 | 49 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.8% | ordinary ×0.82 | 198 d |    | |
| Dark | 96 | 36 | 18 | 14.6% 9%–23% | 13.2% | ordinary ×0.87 | 178 d | | |
| Colorful | 264 | 115 | 16 | 13.6% 10%–18% | 13.1% | ordinary ×0.90 | 114 d | | |
| Abstract | 14 | 8 | 4 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.42 | 184 d |    | |
| 3D | 415 | 168 | 17 | 13.0% 10%–17% | 12.7% | ordinary ×1.04 | 91 d |  | |
| Violent | 38 | 14 | 34 | 15.8% 7%–30% | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.62 | 190 d |  |
About these numbers
“Adjusted” is the share pulled towards the catalogue with the weight of twenty releases: the top of any ranked list is optimistic (out of a hundred pairings one will show 35 % on 23 releases by luck alone), and the adjustment is what stops a small lucky group from leading. The band next to the raw share is the 95 % interval. This list is the same for everyone today; the second opinion is the description-based one on Pitch comps.
